<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1376px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:19e" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:19d" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Dear Researcher,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">We invite you to submit at the MUFin21 workshop! The workshop provides a platform for experts across industry and academia to discuss and present challenges, novel solutions, and pave the way for future directions in modelling sequential data uncertainty for the financial world. We invite papers focused on modelling uncertainty for financial applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:<br><br><u>Application Topics:</u></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;margin-top:0cm"><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Evaluating financial risk</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Forecasting stock market</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Modelling seasonality in market trends</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Fraud prediction</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Modelling temporal social media activity</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Recommendation systems</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Adversarial Attacks on financial models</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Technical Topics:</span></u></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;margin-top:0cm"><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Temporal/Sequential data modelling – clustering, classification</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Modelling uncertainty in financial data</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Temporal graphs</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Time Series Forecasting</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Text analytics of financial reports, forecasts, and documents</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Explainable/interpretable sequential modelling</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Exploring fairness and robustness towards bias in financial models</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Representation learning from temporal/sequential data</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Modelling financial data as temporal point processes</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Submission Deadline: 22nd July 2021 (Extended)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Website: </span><span style="color:rgb(26,115,232);font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mufin21/home" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://sites.google.com/view/mufin21/home</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The best paper of the workshop will be awarded a <b>Best Paper Award</b> worth $500!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto">Please refer to the website for more details. Incase of any queries, please reach out to Maneet Singh at <a href="mailto:maneet.singh@mastercard.com" title="mailto:maneet.singh@mastercard.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">maneet.singh@mastercard.com</span></a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Maneet</p></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi" style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>